Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	author_n	good_a	sin_n	1,450	5	5.1627	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80515	Astrology proved harmless, useful, pious. Being a sermon / written by Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1657 (1657)	Wing C619; Thomason E899_2; ESTC R206740	34,254	49

reprehenditur hic Auctor quÃ²d videlicÃ¨t sensisse videatur Christi nativitatem praenosci potuisse ex genethliacis observationibus atque ad hoc adduxerit apparitionem Stellae quae apparuit Magis There is one thing for which this Author is reprehended that is because he soemed to have thought he speaks tenderly in regard he was his brother Cardinal that Christ's Nativity could be foreknown from genethliacal observations and to the proof of this brought the apparition of the Star which appeared to the Magi. If Petrus ab Alliaco had in the least manner been refreshed from the liquid Fountains of Astrology he might have found with ease that this Star of the East was not of the Stars in Heaven but one moved in the Air and formed for this purpose that it might with more aptness direct the Wise-men and design the place where the Babe was He might have known likewise had he been a Cardinal in Learning that a heavenly Star could not be widdow'd from her Orb nor have room to move so neer the Earth and that the sense of the Text the Stars shall fall from Heaven rises Mat. 24 29. above the letter and that a Star amongst the Stars could not in a proper sense be called Christâ—s Star Ignorance of Astrology ingulf'd Petrus ab Alliaco almost into as great a depth of madness as that into which Cardanus was plung'd who pry'd into the Horoscope of Christ and taking his guidance from the position of the Stars in his Nativity and from certain finister Aspects born when Christ was born foretold in a kinde it was his fate to die upon the Cross I will not be presumptuous and say that Cardanus was ignorant of Astrology but I will take heart to say that his Judgement upon this Scheme was over-curious and that all Sciences have their modest limits as they are hand maids to Diviuity Petrus ab Alliaco should have considered that the Stars go in a brotherly manner from East to West whenas this Star travelled alone from East to South that this Star maintained its light in the Day the Sun looking on it and shining that it withdrew and returned as the business moved upon which it waited and that it walk'd in the lower Region of the Air. And verily God leading the Magi or Wise-men to Christ by a Star as most attemperable to them justified their Observation and use of the Stars as likewise he directed the Shepherds to Christ by the Apparition of Angels the Apparition of Angels being common and holy to the Jews Let me affix here those Texts in the Gospel which treat of lunatick persons cannot be fathomed if the Mat. 4. 24. knowledge of Astrology be secluded For as Aquinas Mat. 17. 15. D. Tho. p. 1. qu. 115. Art 5. Arg. 1. wisely discovers Daemones secundÃ¹m certa augmenta Lunae aliquos homines vexant qui propter hoc lunatici dicuntur The Devils do vex some possessed persons according to certain augmentations of the Moon who therefore are called lunatick And this they did for two Reasons first that they might throw a dishonour upon the Moon as the Creature of God This Reason is own'd by Saint Hierom and Saint Chrysostom Secondly S. Hierom. ad 4. cap. Matth. S. Chrysost hom 58. in Matth. Arist lib. de somn vigil cap. 5. Because the Devils cannot work but by the mediation of natural things and vertues and the Brain being the moistest part of Man's Body according to Aristotle and therefore especially subjected to the Operation of the Moon which is Domina humorum humidorum the Lady and Governess of humours and humid things the Devils molest and trouble the Fancy in the secret times wherein the Moon and the Brain most concur in the application of Active to Passive and the Brain is most disposed to receive the impressions and influences of the Moon Sixthly I prove it Because the knowledge of Astrology administers necessary help to the Body of Divinity and very much illustrates yea confirms the chief and bottom-Doctrines of it there being a strict Concatenation as in Vertues and Sciences so in the Works and Ways of God amongst themselves and with them That part of divine providence which we call Election and Predestination although it be efficacious doth not altogether infringe humane Liberty because it onely determines in sensu composito in a compounded sense as supposing the composition of our concurse with the decree of God even then when to divide falls into the may and can of humane Arbitrement True it is if the Love of friendship in God which he can exercise onely towards reasonable Creatures whereas others are not capable of elevation sufficient to such friendship or the benevolence of God be efficacious affectively it is also always efficacious effectively whatsoever the Reprobates can do with their helps either physically or morally Yet Liberty is not impeded because the nighest power which is the will of man being the power from which Liberty takes its essence and appellation is alwayes indifferent even when the power to which it is subordinated moves this way or that way by predetermination The Confirmation or Illustration descends from the Heavens And as that which the Philosophers and Astrologers call the supreme Heaven so draws with it all the inferiour Orbs that it neither breaks stops not interrupts their proper motions and influences so God almighty draws all Things after his eternal Decree and yet neither abrogates nor infringes the peculiar force motion influence or opposition of any Thing Yea this Divine-like and supereminent kinde of motion was betrothed to the supreme Heaven that it might be a most high Emblem of the Divine Operation in respect of reasonable and other Creatures God said unto Abram I am the Almighty Gen. 17. 1. God walk before me and be thou perfect Which opens it self to receive this Paraphrase I move all by my power at my pleasure But I leave thee as a free agent and therefore I lay my commandments upon thee walk before me and be thou perfect If we remove this Theological Explication assisted and seconded with its Astrological Illustration or Confirmation from this grand Matter in Divinity the result from God's absolute and irresistible Decree as also from that unchristian position which settles an irresistible and compelling power and influence of the Heavens will be that God is the Author of sin For Opera magis ad imperantem congentem pertinent quÃ m ad exequentem Works pertain more to him that commands and compels then to him that executes But as Fulgentius who lived and shone in a dark age argues excellently Deus non est Author ejus cujus est S. Fulgent lib. 1. ad in omnium Regem cap. 19. Vltor God is not the Author of that of the which he is the Revenger And Reason is wholly ours For if God were the Author of sin he were not summÃ¨ Bonus Good in the chiefest manner The Consequence

hath Bones and sinews Ex loco Causarum effectorum from the Causes and their Effects betwixt which there must be some kinde of proportion and similitude which are not betwixt Ens summÃ¨ bonum pecatum a Thing good in the chiesest manner and sin Because sin as such hath no goodness in it self neither hath it existence ut peccatum as sin sed ut Ens but as a Thing It would likewise follow that contradictory Propositions are both true these Assertions containing an implicite Contradiction to be God and not to be most excellently Good that is if we speak out and explicitely not to be God And as the Author of sin cannot be good so neither can he be holy just or the Judge of the World which are God's essential properties Saint Basil is the Author of a Homily beyond the ordinary level wherein he throws this thunderbolt Tantundem est S. Basil Hom. Quod Deus non sit Author peccati Deum asserere esse Authorem peccati negare esse Deum It is as much to assert God to be the Author of sin as to deny him to be God Yea He that consequentially makes God the Author of sin makes our most holy most pure and most blessed Lord God and gracious Father of mercies worse then then the Devil Because 2 Cor. 1. 3. the Devil tempteth onely and perswadeth to sin and all his motions may be resisted and cast off But God as the spurious Teachers and Carcasses of Divines teach willeth and procureth sin by a powerful effectual and irresistible Decree even as the degenerating and spurious Astrologer forceth our wills to it by an inviolable influence to the which he saith God hath necessarily obliged the Heavens And these all avouch against the Axiom the will to be compelled But it is most agreeable to the Secret of Symmetry That they who have sinned away all Christian Bowels and are the high and mighty Scandalizers of Men should highly scandalize the Almighty God also I prove again That Astrology is an able assistant to the most abstruse part of Divinity as being admirably proportioned to it in materiÃ¢ circa quam in the matter concerning which it in part discourseth As appears also in a matter depending upon the former We may avoid all sins potestate antecedenti by an antecedent power The antecedent power is a power having whatsoever is antecedently necessary to operation on our part if the will consenteth or if the Will will not consent whatsoever is necessary to forestall and prevent operation But we cannot avoid all sins potestate consequenti by a consequent and efficacious S. Aug. lib. 3. de lib. Arbitr c. 17. power It is the received Maxime of Saint Austin Nemo peccat in eo quod vitare non potest No man sins in that which he cannot avoid That is which he cannot avoid either at first or last either by precluding the way to sin or by not yielding and consenting when the temptation maketh its battery Neither doth the prescience of God impose a necessity upon the Things fore-known by him For God fore-knows his own Acts and yet he is a most free Agent And that the Things so fore-known cannot but happen in a manner as they are fore-known the reason is because God fore-knowing them doth not if we speak in rigour fore-know them but looks upon them as done and present all things being present to him in eternity which is Nunc stans a standing and immoveable Now. And when a Thing is now done and present it cannot but be yea although otherwise compared to its causes it is most contingent this being onely a hypothetical necessity not excluding contingency So that God is most pure and holy and acquitted from being entangled in our errors Students in Astrology have the Conclusion wherein all the vertue of the Premises lies couched render'd again to them in the way as they look up and also in the heavenly Bodies God is most pure and holy c. The supreme part of the Air which is neerest to the Heavens is far from troubles and disorders it is not drawn into the faction of the Clouds or middle Region it is not forced into a Tempest no Tumults or Commotions are there And if we ascend above the Moon the heavenly Bodies are all quiet and incorruptible Indeed they act upon us but they do not necessitate us In a word they act as their Maker acts who doth not irresistbly force our wills but onely they put us to the trial as God does that we may conquer A wise man repels their maligne influences and maintains the Calm of the Heavens in his minde and Heart even consonantly to the Sentence of a very Stoick Talis est Seneca Ep. 59. sapientis animus qualis Mundi status super Lunam sempÃ¨r illic ferenum est Such is the minde of a wise man as the state of the world above the Moon It is always serene there The Crest and Spire of all is these heavenly Bodies refer us to look above them and to call upon God for Grace which out-acts Nature the Stars and whatsoever else acts in Man and this also is God's course in his permissions of temptation The Old Testament begins There is none holy as the Lord. And the 1 Sam. 2. 2. New answers Every good gift and every perfect gift is Jam. 1. 17. from above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom is no variaebleness neither shadow of turning Lastly I prove it Because the Objections raised against this enquiry are meer bubbles and of no firmness First Many Texts of Scripture are set in Battalia which declare God's anger against Star-gazers and the like We must therefore enquire what was the practise of these unholy Star-gazers against which holy Scripture Isa 47. 13. inveigheth I am so far Berosus his Proselyte that I believe Zoroastres to have been Cham so he is called in the Latin Bible and that he was the Father of those who perverted the noble Science of Astrology the foundation of which together with some excellent kinde of superstructure were solid and clean as they were deliver'd by the Children of Seth. The new and wrong'd Astrology was in process of time most disseminated in Chaldea To this the Fathers and Civil Laws are diametrically opposite The professors of it differed from the true Astrologers allied to the Children of Seth first Because their Opinion was That the influences of the Stars were irresistible and irresistibly wrought even upon the Spirits and wills of Men. In which respect some Councils national and provincial have declared against the Priscillianists Pagans and certain Jews One defines in short and anathematizes all Gain-sayers Si quis animas corpora humana fatalibus Concil Bracarense cap. 9. vide etiam c. 10 Stellis credit astringi sicut Pagani Priscillianus dixerunt Anathema sit If any man believes that the souls and bodies of men are bound to

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